DANIEL KEHLMANN / Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation
Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored
by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be
great?
But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing,
where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew
your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How
would your fame help you then?
What if someone got hold of your cell phone? What if they spoke to your
girlfriends, your agent, your director, and started making decisions for you?
And worse, what if no one believed you were you anymore? When you saw a
look-alike acting your roles for you, what would you do?
And what if one day you realized your magnum opus, like everything else you’d
ever written, was a total waste of time, empty nonsense? What would you do
next? Would your audience of seven million people keep you going? Or would you
lose the capacity to keep on doing it?
Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through all nine
episodes of this captivating, wickedly funny, and perpetually surprising novel
as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real
people morph into characters. The result is a dazzling tour de force by one of
“Who would have
thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so
funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy, famous
everywhere but in the
Daniel Kehlmann’s
Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages.
Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of
the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the
Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann
divides his time between
- Street:
- The Booksmith
- Additional:
- 1644 Haight Street
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94117
- Country:
- United States
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